Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions
People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men’s souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.